Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Words. Fail.

Feb. 21, 2012 — President James H. Mullen Jr. of Allegheny College, one of the nation’s oldest liberal-arts colleges, today honored political journalists and commentators David Brooks of The New York Times and nationally syndicated columnist Mark Shields as the recipients of the first Allegheny College Prize for Civility in Public Life at the National Press Club.

The Allegheny College Prize for Civility in Public Life each year will honor two winners, one from each side of the ideological spectrum, who show noteworthy civility while continuing to fight passionately for their beliefs. After reviewing many nominees in politics and political journalism, Brooks and Shields were selected for the inaugural award...

I suppose the crack Allegheny College Civility in Public Life research team which I am sure thoroughly vetted these honorees were just too darn civilized to mention to the awards committee Mr. Brooks' long record of publicly mocking and slandering people who disagree with his very bad opinions.And so into this world comes another award which, I predict, will be cruelly denied me :-)

10 comments:

Could be that "Civility" is now defined to include blatantly lying with a straight face and in a carefully modulated tone of voice. There's fertile ground here for a Reality TV show called, naturally, The Civility Wars.

Well, that whole paragraph is so jam-packed with fail as to beggar any sort of responding utterance. How could any parent allow his or her child to attend a college that can so concisely turn the entire potentiality of critical thought into a small bowl of Cream of Wheat?